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Title Biomedical ethics : a multidisciplinary approach to moral issues in medicine and biology / edited by David Steinberg
Published Hanover : University Press of New England, [2007]
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Description xv, 380 pages ; 23 cm
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Contents Machine derived contents note: contents -- Preface xiii -- Part One: The Nature of Biomedical Ethics -- Introduction: The Nature of Biomedical Ethics, David Steinberg, MD 3 -- Bioethics: Then and Now, Allan M. Brandt, PhD 7 -- Bioethics: Then and Now, Albert R. Jonsen, PhD 10 -- The Nature of Morality, Jerome Kagan, PhD 14 -- The Nature of Morality: The Category of Bad Acts, -- Richard A. Shweder, PhD 18 -- The Biological Basis of Morality, David Sloan Wilson, PhD 22 -- The Amoral Roots of Morality, David Haig, PhD 25 -- Religion and the Public Discourse of Bioethics, Laurie Zoloth, PhD 29 -- Religion and Bioethics, Daniel Callahan, PhD 32 -- Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Rosemarie Tong, PhD 35 -- Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Gilbert Meilaender, PhD 39 -- Bioethics in Culturally Diverse Societies, Leigh Turner, PhD 42 -- Bioethics in Culturally Diverse Societies, Bernard Gert, PhD 47 -- Part Two: The Power of Language -- Introduction: The Power of Language, David Steinberg, MD 55 -- The Total Artificial Heart: Is Paying for It Immoral and Stopping It Murder?, -- Robert M. Veatch, PhD 58 -- The Total Artificial Heart and the Morality of Killing, David Steinberg, MD -- Is This Incest?, Arthur P. Wolf, PhD 62 -- Embryo Adoption, Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, PhD 70 -- Dialogue: The Politics of Embryo Transfer, Mary Anderlik Majumder, JD, PhD 74 -- Defending Challenges to the Concept of "Brain Death", James L. Bernat, MD 78 -- The Concept of Brain Death, Michael A. Devita, MD -- Robert M. Arnold, MD 82 -- An Ethical Framework for Fetal Research, Frank A. Chervenak, MD 87 -- Ethics and Fetal Research, Sidney Callahan, PhD 90 -- Transgenderism, Norman Spack, MD 95 -- Beyond the Medical Model of Gender Dysphoria to Morphological -- Self-determination, James L. Hughes, PhD 99 -- Part Three: Novel Technologies -- Introduction: Novel Technologies, David Steinberg, MD 107 -- Cloning Human Beings, Dan W. Brock, PhD 110 -- Commentary on Human Cloning, Ruth Macklin, PhD 113 -- Cloning Human Beings, Daniel Callahan, PhD 116 -- Ethical Issues of Egg Donation, Sharon Steinberg, RN, MS, CS 120 -- Consent and Uncertainty in Egg Donation, John A. Robertson, BA, JD 123 -- A Lesbian Couple Who Both Want a Biologic Link to -- Their Offspring, Cynthia B. Cohen, PhD, JD 125 -- Social and Ethical Challenges of Prenatal Diagnosis, Diane Beeson, PhD 128 -- Prenatal Diagnosis, Peter Singer, MA, BPHIL 132 -- Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Beginning a Long Conversation, -- Erik Parens, PhD, Thomas H. Murray, PhD 135 -- Heating Up the Conversation?, Paul Lauritzen 139 -- Genetic Enhancement: A Conceptual and Ethical -- Challenge for Gene Therapy Regulation, Eric T. -- Juengst, PhD 144 -- Genetic Enhancement, Glenn McGee, PhD 147 -- Genetically Modified Organisms, Daniel Magnus, PhD 150 -- Reason and Repugnance, Daniel Callahan, PhD 154 -- Human Gene Banks, Garrath Williams, PhD 157 -- Are Human Gene Banks Worth It?, Jon F. Merz, MBA, JD, MD 161 -- Implantable Brain Chips: Ethical and Policy Issues, Ellen M. McGee, PhD, -- Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr., PhD 164 -- Implantable Brain Chips; Will They Change Who We Are?, -- Daniel C. Dennett, PhD 168 -- The Fight over How to Allocate Livers, Robert M. Veatch, PhD 172 -- Equity in Liver Allocation, Dan W. Brock, PhD 176 -- Part Four: In the Clinical Arena -- Introduction: In the Clinical Arena, David Steinberg, MD 183 -- The Value of an Ethics Consultation, David Ozar, PhD 186 -- Dialogue: Who Does the Ethics Consultation Serve?, Robert D. Orr, MD, CM 190 -- Should I Lie to the Insurance Company?, James E. Sabin, MD 194 -- Conflicting Advance Directives, David Goldblatt, MD 196 -- What Information Should Be Disclosed to Patients?, David Steinberg, MD 198 -- The Characteristics of Information and Avoiding Surprises, -- Heather J. Gert, PhD 202 -- The Man Who Wouldn't Be Shocked, John A. Balint, MD, FRCP 207 -- The Case of the Unresponsive Hermit, Dan W. Brock, PhD 208 -- Live Organ Donation: Determining the Mental Age of Consent, -- Stuart J. Youngner, MD 210 -- A Time for Reflection, Joseph J. Fins, MD 213 -- Let My Wife Bleed to Death, Paul S. Appelbaum, MD 215 -- A Teenager's Refusal of Assent for Treatment, Nuala P. Kenny, MD, FRCPC 217 -- Can an HIV-positive Woman Be Forced to Take -- Medicine to Protect Her Fetus?, Mandy Garber, MD, -- Susan C. Hunt, MD, Robert M. Arnold, MD 220 -- Ethics for Astronauts, Walter M. Robinson, MD, MPH 222 -- Bioethics in Space, Paul Root Wolpe, PhD 226 -- When the School Bus Driver Is a Drinker, Stuart J. Youngner, MD 230 -- Should a Clinical Trial Coordinator Blow the Whistle?, -- Howard Brody, MD, PhD 231 -- Do Physicians Overtreat the Seriously Ill?, James L. Bernat, MD 234 -- Do Physicians Overtreat the Seriously Ill?, George J. Annas, JD, MPH -- James L. Bernat, MD 000 -- Is Terminal Sedation Really Euthanasia?, Robert M. Taylor, MD 238 -- My Mother Was a Fighter, Gary S. Fischer, MD, Robert M. Arnold, MD 241 -- Rational Suicide and the Terminally Ill, Susan D. Block, MD 243 -- Dialogue: Rational but Wrong, Hebert Hendin, MD 247 -- Euthanasia for Existential Reasons, G. K. Kimsma,, MD, MPH 249 -- How Much Suffering Is Enough?, Timothy Quill, MD 252 -- Managing Cross-cultural Conflicts in the -- Doctor-Patient Relationship, Robert A. Pearlman, -- Md, Mph 256 -- Should This 96-year-old Woman Be Allowed to Die?, Xiuyun Yin, PhD, -- Benfu Li, MD, Yali Cong, PhD 259 -- I Can't Watch This Baby Die Inside Me, Frank A. -- Chervenak, MD, Laurence B. McCullough, PhD 262 -- Family Demand for Futile Treatment, Lawrence J. Schneiderman, MD 264 -- Does Anyone Actually Invoke their Hospital Futility Policy?, -- Jeffrey Burns, MD, MPH 266 -- Posthumous Sperm Retrieval, Alexander Morgan Capron 269 -- Must Multiorgan Donors Be Brain Dead?, Robert D. Orr, MD 271 -- Should a PVS Patient Be a Live Organ Donor?, -- Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD 274 -- Part Five: Ethics and the Law -- Introduction: Ethics and the Law, David Steinberg, MD 279 -- Keeping Genetic Secrets, Leonard H. Glantz, JD 281 -- Rights and Responsibilities of Gamete Donors, Jane Greenlaw, JD 284 -- Pregnant Women and Their Fetuses: Legal and Ethical Issues, -- Jane Greenlaw, JD 287 -- The Human Chimera Patent Initiative, Stuart A. Newman, PhD 290 -- The Wendland Case: On Families and Fantasies, Lawrence J. Nelson, PhD, JD 293 -- The Texas "Futility" Procedure: No Such Thing as a Fairy-tale Ending, -- Anne L. Flamm, JD 296 -- Legal Pitfalls of Cybermedicine, Nicolas Terry, LLM 299 -- Contracting for Healthcare Quality, Francis H. Miller, JD 303 -- Who Should Capture the Value of Donated Tissue?, Robert A. Katz, JD 306 -- The Controversy over Recovered Memories, Thomas Gutheil, MD 309 -- Behavioral Genetics: Can We Prevent Crimes Before -- They Are Committed?, Maxwell J. Mehlman, JD 312 -- Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminal Responsibility, -- William J. Winslade, PhD, JD 315 -- Maternal Infanticide and the Insanity Defense, Margaret Spinelli, MD 318 -- Informed Consent for Stem Cell Research Using Frozen Embryos, -- Dena S. Davis, JD, PhD 320 -- Financial Interests and Research Protections: Can They Coexist?, -- Rebecca Dresser, JD 323 -- Governmental Bioethics Commissions: The Nature of the Beast, -- Alexander Morgan Capron 326 -- Part Six: Ethics and the Humanities -- Wrongful Death: A Memoir, by Sandra M. Gilbert, David Steinberg, MD 333 -- The Doctor Stories, by Richard Selzer, Catherine Belling, MA 334 -- End of the Line: Depression and Burnout in Ward No. 6, -- Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH 336 -- Million Dollar Boo-boo, David Goldblatt, MD 338 -- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman, -- David Steinberg, MD 339 -- How We Die, by Sherwin B. Nuland, Andrew G. Villaneuva, MD 341 -- The Sweet Hereafter, by Russell Banks, Delese Wear, PhD 342 -- The Diagnosis, by Alan Lightman, James L. Bernat, MD 343 -- An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison, David Steinberg, MD 345 -- Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, by William Styron, -- David Wykes, PhD 346 -- Conquering Schizophrenia: A Father, His Son and a -- Medical Breakthrough, by Peter Wyden, David -- Steinberg, MD 347 -- Wit, by Margaret Edson, Lois LaCivita Nixon, PhD, MPH 349 -- Travels with the Wolf: A Story of Chronic -- Illness, by Melissa Anne Goldstein, Jack -- Coulehan, MD, MPH 350 -- Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart -- of the AIDS Epidemic, by Kate Scannell, MD, -- Felice Aull, PhD, MA 352 -- His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of -- Medicine, by Jonathan Weiner, Richard M. Ratzan, -- Md 354 -- The Tyranny of the Normal: An Anthology, David Steinberg, MD 356 -- Dirty Pretty Things: A Narrative Frame for Black Market Organ Sale, -- Lois LaCivita Nixon, PhD, MLITT, MPH 357 -- Author Affiliations 359 -- Index 365
Notes Articles reprinted from Medical ethics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also available online (Table of contents)
Subject Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
Bioethical Issues.
Bioethics.
Genre/Form Collected Work.
Author Steinberg, David, 1940-
LC no. 2007011147
ISBN 9781584656432 paperbback alkaline paper
1584656433 paperback alkaline paper
OTHER TI Medical ethics (Burlington, Mass.)